“Brazilian wildcat gold miners attack indigenous Munduruku village in Amazon, burn down leader's home”, 27 May 2021

...Wildcat gold miners illegally prospecting on protected indigenous lands in the Amazon fired on a Munduruku village and burned down the house of one of its leaders on Wednesday (local time), Brazil's main indigenous organisation said. Federal Police said the gold miners then tried to invade the local police post and wreck vehicles and helicopters that are being used in an ongoing operation against the miners, police said in a statement...APIB said it suspected the attack on the village was a reprisal for the police operation to protect indigenous lands...The miners fired shots at the village in the latest of a mounting wave of attacks on indigenous communities in gold prospecting areas in the Amazon. The wildcat miners have been emboldened by Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and his support for legalising wild mining and commercial activities on indigenous lands..."This routine of terror is happening also in the Yanomami reservation that has been under intense attack since the beginning of the month in Roraima state," APIB said, referring to Brazil's largest indigenous reservation...The police said they were forced to disperse the miners when they protested in the town of Jacareacanga, deep in the Amazon jungle in Pará state, and tried to occupy the police base...